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If you had been President, would you have caved in to the Iraqi government’s demand that U.S. servicepeople in Iraq be subject to the jurisdiction of Iraqi criminal courts?
Archive for October, 2011
October 22nd, 2011
Category: Campaign 2012, Mitt Romney
Hard-hitting ad on tax fairness from “Priorities USA Action” (otherwise unknown to me). If the 2012 election is between the Buffett Rule and the Romney Rule, I think I know who wins.
October 22nd, 2011
Category: Crime Control
Convicting the innocent, and preventing their exoneration by opposing post-conviction forensic testing, leaves the guilty at liberty to strike again.
October 21st, 2011
Category: Campaign 2012, Watching Conservatives
Herman Cain is pro-choice: he believes that a woman who becomes pregnant as the result of rape should be able to *choose* between bearing her rapist’s child and going to jail.
October 20th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
Google cuts off my email for 24 hours over a changed credit-card billing address.
Did I miss the news story about Google’s merger with Microsoft? “Don’t Be Evil” is a good slogan, but it does subject you to a higher standard than Google seems to want to live up to.
October 20th, 2011
Category: Language and usage
In a post last week about Herman Cain, I initially wrote that African-Americans were “staunchly loyal” Democrats. A few hours later, something about that phrase nagged at my brain, so I googled on it to make sure it was sensible. I found countless usages of the phrase, including in many respected outlets. But just be [...]
October 20th, 2011
Category: Britain, Technology and Society
With the passing of Gil Hayward, the magnificent British code breaking team at Bletchley Park moves, sadly, further from living memory. We appropriately admire the tremendous risks front-line soldiers took at Dunkirk and Normandy, but should also appreciate that some of the biggest victories of the war were produced by turbo-nerds with thick glasses working [...]
October 19th, 2011
Category: Drug Policy
Rich Danker at Forbes has nice things to say about the book. No doubt due to the skill of my collaborators, it seems to have the characteristic that drug war hawks and drug war doves both find it congenial.
October 19th, 2011
Category: Mitt Romney
Romney denies that he hired illegal aliens, though they were hired by his contractor to work on his property. If Romney’s idea of delegation is abdication, and if he thinks it’s not his fault when someone working for him does the wrong thing, then he’s profoundly unfit to be President.